Not Your Sweetie

Christian Science Monitor on Fux's folly:


As opinions clash over the US role in Iraq, there have been some interesting figures used to justify one side's position over the other. Perhaps the most interesting example of this was advanced by FoxNews earlier this week, when it said that the rate of US soldiers being killed in Iraq is minor, say, compared to the number of people who are killed in California every day. US soldiers in Iraq are dying at a rate of 1.7 per day, while there are 6.6 murders daily in California. But the problem with the argument is that there are only 150,000 US troops in Iraq, while there are 34.5 million people in California. So in fact, a US soldier in Iraq is actually 46 times more likely to be killed than a person in California